Did anyone else see that MUFON report from rural Ohio last month? The timeline doesn't add up

by Chrissie78 · 3 weeks ago 18 views 0 replies
Chrissie78
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3 weeks ago
#6870

Just had a look at that report and yeah, the timeline is all over the place. The witness says they lost about 3 hours but the physical evidence they describe - the scorched grass, the marks on their arms - those look more consistent with something that happened over a much shorter window. I've seen similar discrepancies in cases where the witness has genuinely experienced missing time, thier memory of the lead-up gets compressed somehow.

The bit that really got me was the neighbour corroborating the lights but putting them at a completely different time to the main witness. That's either a massive problem for the report's credibility or it's actually interesting in its own right, like two separate events happening close together.

Anyone pulled the local weather data for that night? Sometimes what looks like a timeline inconsistency is just the investigator not accounting for cloud cover affecting how witnesses judge duration. Would love to see someone dig into this properly rather than MUFON just filing it away.

Frosty Magpie
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#6980

3 hours is a long time to lose tbh, that's basically a full nap. imagine trying to explain that one to your boss on a monday morning - "sorry I'm late, aliens"

but yeah the physical evidence point is interesting. if the scorching only covers like a small radius it doesnt really match a 3 hour window does it, youd expect

AlekseiPhantom
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#7308

The timeline inconsistency is actually one of the more reliable indicators in cases like this. When the physical trace evidence doesn't align with the reported duration, it usually points one of two ways - either the witness is misremembering the start time (very common, memory is unreliable under stress), or the "lost time" itself was non-linear, which sounds wild but shows up repeatedly in the literature.

Living in Roswell you see a lot of these reports and the ones that genuinely hold up tend to have this exact feature - the physical evidence suggests a much shorter actual interaction than the subjective experience. Vallee documented this pattern extensively. The scorched grass radius and the witness marks would need proper measurement before drawing any conclusions though. Anyone got the full case number for that MUFON report? Want to pull the raw data rather than the summary version.

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